Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — A Great French Pathologist. [ARTICLE]

A Great French Pathologist.

Charcot’s interest in the study of nervous diseases was so Intense that he came in time to regard all men, even his friends, from a pathological point of view. He was certain that the unclean bent of Zola s mind was due to neurosis, and be was not sure that it did not prevail in Wagner’s music. He looked upon the German Emperor as a neuropath, and was rather disappointed, perhaps as much as a Frenchman as a physician, that the Kaiser did not become afflicted with general paralysis. Charcot was ever on a keen hunt for the brains of diseased patients who interested him, and when he learned of the death of Burq, a half-mad man of genius whose career he had watched, his first question was: “What has been done with his brain?” When Informed that it had been buried with the body he cried out, “The monster!" and then added: “It must have been a rare brain. There was a paralytic twitch in Burq’s face, such as I had never seen. I longed to know how It originated.” Charcot had a many-sided mind. He could use his pencil with all the talent of a great artist, and his knowledge of music was such that his friends believed he could have become a great composer.—New York World.